Few founders can say they’ve guided the same company from scrappy startup to publicly traded platform while maintaining their innovative edge—but Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box, is no ordinary founder. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29…
Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build cutting-edge AI models. Backers poured roughly $1 billion into the company, betting on CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a…
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI…
I’m riding in the back of a Waymo as it autonomously navigates the busy streets of San Francisco with ease, thanks to its 29 external cameras, six radar units, and five lidar sensors feeding data into an AI model. For…
Rapido, a popular ride-hailing platform in India, has quietly begun beta testing its food delivery service in Bengaluru. This marks its first serious move to challenge market leaders Swiggy and Zomato in one of the world’s fastest-growing delivery markets. The…
Customer service can make or break a brand, and a recent interaction between Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Stripe co-founder John Collison highlights how powerful responsiveness can be. On Wednesday, Pichai announced on X that Google Calendar had rolled out…
Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop, a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability, in a move to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it follows…
Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, showcased new designs for the upcoming watch on Wednesday, now known as the Pebble Time 2. Although the company initially branded its new watches as the Core 2 Duo and Core…
India-based audio series platform Pocket FM aims to become the Netflix of audio by matching its extensive library of episodes to users’ preferences. To achieve this, the company is leveraging AI to accelerate content production. The startup, backed by Lightspeed,…
For decades, NASA built and operated its own relay orbiters and spacecraft to transmit valuable data back to Earth. Now, the agency is shifting toward purchasing connectivity as a service, similar to its approach with launch and astronaut transportation. This…
